[SVN-2836] Add ability to block/unblock revisions from merging

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: trunk
• Fix Version/s: unscheduled
• Component/s: cmdline client
• Labels: merge-tracking
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Daniel Rall
• Created: 16/Jul/07 22:25
• Updated: 19/Dec/14 14:16

Description

Add command-line and underlying API for protecting revisions which should never
be merged from accidental merging.

Requirements/use cases are here:
http://subversion.tigris.org/merge-tracking/requirements.html#revision-blocking

svnmerge.py supports the following related command set:

    block         Block revisions within PATH so that they disappear from the
                  available list
    unblock       Revert the effect of 'block'

Until this is implemented, the work around is to use 'svn merge --record-only'
to block/unblock revisions from merging, and keep a separate list of revisions
which are to later be considered "blocked".  It would be possible to keep such a
list in another Subversion property like "blocked-revisions" to avoid the need
for separate storage.

http://subversion.tigris.org/merge-tracking/requirements.html#revision-blocking